French Kiss by Jill Sanders Series: Silver Cove #2
Published by Idealist LLC on August 9th 2016
Pages: 300
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For the next few weeks all Lilith has to do is run the prestigious East Haven Resorts while her best friend Sarah is on her honeymoon. No big deal, except it means she’ll be dealing directly with the head chef Adam, who is not only cocky, arrogant, and French, but damn sexy to boot. This was going to be the longest two weeks of her life.Adam really enjoys seeing Lilith riled up and flustered. Actually, it’s what gets him out of bed every morning. But, when someone else is threatening to sweep in and take her away, he realizes it’s time to stop playing games and go after what he wants.
This wasn’t a bad read at all, but I did come to this book without any expectations because Jill Sanders can be a hit or miss for me. Not having read the first book and having secondary characters flitting in and out was rather jarring, but by and large, Sanders does try for a balance between developing a relationship between two people who aren’t on equal footing to begin with and a tad bit of suspense on the side.
The setting was lovely as well. A resort town with great scenery it seems and the use of weather as foreshadowing (or am I reading too much into this?) created an overall languid feel to the entire story, essentially keeping the reader in a idyllic capsule of sunshine, fresh air and the blue sea up until the point Adam and Lilly get their HEA.
Yet I found myself bored at times; the pace did lag a bit and I found myself surprised when the love declaration parts came in so quick when Adam’s and Lilly’s relationship hadn’t quite hit its stride yet. There were eye-rolling moments as well, as I grimaced my way through Adam’s somewhat farcical French accent – being shipped off to an English-speaking country at age 9 would have long erased it – and the way he seemed to gravitate towards Lilly without some context or backstory given.
I do find myself by the end of the book, oddly neutral though. Distraction came too easily – in part due to the constant in-and-out movement of the sheer number of characters – and forgetting bits of the story in between didn’t make it that memorable at all, but there’s no denying that Sanders has come a long way in her writing.
